Guild Wars 2

I don’t think they had one. their plans to defend against the char invasion were to unleash a powerful spell that would defeat the invaders. It’s likely that they figured they could do the job of an army through purly magical means.

if you really believe you are using the game mechanics the way they are intended and not exploiting something, why even ask?

If you’re so convinced it’s perfectly acceptable, go ahead and do it. Like i said, justify it to yourself however you see fit.

I hardly think it’s intended by design that you play the game without playing the game…but i didn’t design it.

I do however report players I see doing it for botting and leave it up to the designers to decide for sure.

because you have automated gameplay. your character is not being controlled by you.

they made auto attacks to help you in the heat of the moment and maybe save some button mashing while you’re sitting at your keyboard. Not so that the game would auto play without input from a person actively playing.

doesn’t matter to me how you try to justify it to yourself. i call it griefing, or an exploit or botting. either way, it isnt they way they meant the game to be played.

it’s still considere botting and it is a plague on this game right now. Just look at the many many threads on the subject already.

Zenyatoo.4059:

jebidiah ubershiet.2580:

but it looks like they do have a bar that fills up and a trait on your hero pannel. I could be way off here but i there’s a cave somewhere in the first or second human zone that says something like “only truly agressive people may enter” I was thinking it had something to do with these traits as well.

use /threaten infront of the gate and it opens.

sweet…sometimes being proven wrong can be rewarding!

but it looks like they do have a bar that fills up and a trait on your hero pannel. I could be way off here but i there’s a cave somewhere in the first or second human zone that says something like “only truly agressive people may enter” I was thinking it had something to do with these traits as well.

Mujen.5287:

jebidiah ubershiet.2580:

More PVP modes.

Please be more specific. What would you like in these pvp modes? And how can they be made different than what they currently have. Anet stated that all pvp maps will have an underlying objective what would yours be?

Xeres.3724:

Every MMO I know of has 1 underlying theme: character progression (gear, talent points, skills, etc.).

I want the end game to continue that. I’m not that picky in terms of how that happens. It just has to be fun. I used to be able to go into instances 3 or 4 times a week to try and get gear. I really am past that now as the only way to get any of these things.

So ANet, I’m not sure what you have in mind with this but mix it up. A little crafting, a little PvP, a little PvE. Maybe a massive event that occurs once a month or something. Want to redefine end game? Don’t get into a rut.

You’re being a bit general. What do you want in your pve, pvp, and crafting that isn’t already in place. Would You enjoy more aspects of phasing during dynamic events?more challenges rewards in WvW? What would you like to craft legendary Armors? town clothing?

not really specifics. I like surprises but in gw1, pvp was more than my end game. It was my main game and the rpg was suplimentary to it. I’m enjoying gw2 very much. but i’m hoping to see the pvp get more robust.

guildwars 1 launched with random arenas, gvg, hoh tournament, team arenas and even some low level rpg only arenas.

Then each expansion added newmodes and changed up old ones. as well as giving us new skills and new ways to compete. I’m hoping that tradition continues with gw2

in gw1 the pvp content was pretty much equal to the pve content. In fact it could almost be said at launch that the rpg game was just a tutorial for pvp.

the ability to roll a pvp only character and jump right in to multiple types of group events was a major part of the appeal to the more casual gamer and the hard core competetive crowd as well. most of my alts were rooted in pvp only toons i loved to play enough to level them in rpg mode and get cool armor.

i found a hidden cave full of pirate ghosts and boobie traps along the shore in the north west corner of the Harathi Hinterlands map. I couldn’t get through it alone at the time and havent been back since. I wont swear that the ghosts in that cave were fawcetts crew, but now I really want to go back in there.

More PVP modes.

BrotherBelial.3094:

I wouldn’t mind seeing an over lay map of GW and Gw2 maps to see where the locations from GW. I loved finding ToA. Seeing Nebo terrace and the Ascalon settlement. The Grenth temple in lomers pass. Not forgetting Grendich courthouse. Not found anywhere else from GW yet. But would love a list of places I can revisit in GW2.

there is an overlay map with all the missions and towns from gw1 shown on the gw2 map. i’ve seen it pop up a few times here on the forums already.

sorry i dont have the link, but i’m sure if you googled “guild wars map” it would turn up somewhere near th top of the search

I like the system having skills tied to weapon hand. I’d like to see a system where you can pick and choose somewhat like gw1 though.

for example: a sword might have 12 main hand skills and 12 off hand skills. you can pick 3 main hand out of the 12 and 2 offhand out of the 12 for your bar.

it keeps the flare of the current system, but allows the customization we crave.

the dont know yet

I don’t get the whole concept of “end game”

I played pve in gw 1till i got sick of killing monsters, then played pvp for 2 more years. that was the end of the game for me.

In wow, I played a toon till lvl 78, got tired of it and stopped playng. that was the end of the game for me.

Play the content provided till you get bored and move on. It’s that simple.

just curious as to why?

agreed. a “-” button should just be added beside the “+” button when you’re in a pvp area. sometimes all i want to do is pull a 5 or 10 points out of one attribute and put them into another without re-selecting everything.

the lore is all over the game, but it’s put in in a “living” sort of way. if you stop in a town and watch for npc’s having conversations theyre usually revealing history. most grave stones have inscriptions you can read that referance historical characters.

If guild wars was a series of novels GW2 would be like book number 9 or 10 in a series with all the stories that were told through novels and the various campaigns of gw1. The history is very rich and very developed. I’m not a hard core lore junky either, but once you scratch the surface it’s easy to get lost.

There is a good timeline on the gw2 wiki that covers a historical timeline showingall the major events from the saga as well as touching on a few we just dont get yet. developing lore appears to have been a huge part of developement and i give anet a kudos for it.

start with threads in the lore sections of the foums and supliment what you learn there with the wikis for both gw1 and 2. I’ve been killing time at work reasurching the history and timeline this way and am feeling rather caught up.

i was a huge GW1 player. years addicted to it. it was my first mmo. since i stopped playing it i’ve played several other mmo’s including a few months of wow. I’ve tried many many f2p wow clones since.

During the lengthy wait between gw1 and gw2 I had sort of given up on gw. I wasnt planning on playing GW2 at all. Didnt watch any video or read any hype. This game was as far from my mind as could be.

I was between games, talking to a friend trying to decide what my next game would be. She pointed out that GW2 headstart was 3 days away. I had no idea it was release time.

I bought the game and decided to give it a go. I’m loving it. All I was told ahead of time was “try not to go into it expecting a sequal to GW1. Go into it expecting a brand new game with really fun combat set in the GW world”.

thats what i got.

If I’m fleeing a mob trying to break agro rather than fight and i notice my mob train engage with another player behind me I stop running and fight. it’s usually an accident that I drug him/her into my mess, but i at least try and help them get out of it.

mine are all male. always will be. I don’t dress in drag in real life (not that there’s anything wrong with that if it floats your boat) and i’ve never done it in a game either.

but all game forums are about people complaining incessantly about how much the game they can’t stop playing sucks. The people who truly believe a game sucks don’t rant on forums. they silently slip off and play a game they don’t think sucks.

It’s a weird phenomenon that I just don’t understand.

I think they make the cash reward for completing world events the most efficient way to earn gold. They could adjust certain events as zones get more and less active. It would be a great way to keep people moving around the world rather than massing them in the “sweet spots”

I’m on level 34 with my ele and level 25 with my thief. I just finally figured out the dodge mechanics in this game. I realize many people will catch on to it sooner than I did, but I think many people struggle with it.

It really is a game changer when you finally “get it”. I suggest new players find a ranged casting type mob and just sit 20 yards from them and practice dodging spells. The default keys for side rolling are not intuitive.

I think if the first personal story mission had some sort of dodging puzzle that really made how this works clear to new players half the whine threads on this forum would…well, I guess they would just be about something other than one hit kills and lack of support rolls.

I absolutely agree OP. Very disappointed that the story in an MMO is single player. I made almost all my friends in GW1 because we were forced to spend a half hour or so together to advance the story.

most do in real life armies too. You call a superior officer “Sir”. They don’t want to be treated any different than a male of their authority.

any forum…any game. it’s always the same. you just have to learn to tune out the noise.

i think instead of the nearest one, your home waypoint should be the only one that’s always free.

it doesnt matter much from what i can tell. racial choice affects appearance and starting zone but the racial skills dont give any advantage to any one class. It’s just fluff.

you see “harmless comunity building fun” i see graffiti. i can frankly understand designers spending countless hours modeling lions arch to give us a place to explore and marvel at being annoyed by finding it littered with golems.

you call it your only source of fun. I call it imature griefing of other players and an obvious exploit. I’m glad they put a stop to it.

[quote=102246;Greyfur.1082I have to disagree, they acknowledge beings that might be more powerful then them but not as “gods” . Just something worth a fight not worship.

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This is backwards. The char see themselves as the most powerful race and refuse to awknowledge any race as being superior. They awknowledge the gods but refuse to worship them.

The exsistance of gods isn’t really disputed in Tyria. I dont think you can really be agnostic or athiest. Religious practices seem more political choice than spiritual.

the only thing i miss is the group story missions. that’s where i met all my gw1 friends.

respecing in GW1 wasn’t really free off the start. well, it was free but it had a sort of cool down where you had to play and build up respec points if i remember correctly.

I have a new found habit of saying “I’m an achiever. I achieve things!” every time I complete the most mundane tasks like taking out the garbage.

is it just me, or is there no options for head gear in leveling sets? It seems strange since they make you choose a specific head gear look on character creation, but my lvl 24 thief and lvl 32 ele have never had any options since. I chose the hood for the thief and the eye of fire for my ele but have only seen the mesmer mask for ele, ranger mask for thief since.

I like the heavy/med/light armor break down rather than having class specific armor. It really does make sence that a thief could wear the same armor as a ranger, But why make head gear preferance a part of character selection if it isnt an option in the game?

I was lucky to get three transmute stones for my thief free out of a lock box so i’ve been able to keep my hood so far buy just wearing the same one for ten levels than transmuting it, but to continue that i have to either pray for more stones or buy some….

I’m playing one character through level 20-30 areas and another through level 30-40 levels and am still always dumped into overflow and find people everywhere in these zones on my server.

I use it more for the gap closing and poison than for the random skill it gives back.

Although some of the skills you get are great in certain situations the randomness kind of makes this more of a gimmick than something you can strategize for.

the way the elementalist is set up is like a cable package. you have to take a group of channels you’ll never watch to get that one you will.

I love what they tried to do here. I was an ele main in GW1 and naturally made an ele here.

problem I found was over the many weapon varieties and attunements i never found a set up that i felt lived up to it’s potential. I liked staff for earth and fire and loved daggers for water and air. Scepters i unlocked all the skills but didnt really spend much time with.

Every set up I used just left me feeling uneasy about what i wasn’t using. You do have to switch it up to use an ele effectively, but I think they’ve spread the ele out too much to find any real strength anywhere. I’m sure this is by design and agree with the reasoning, but it really put me off playing an ele.

then what would Virgil wear?